Visual Arts

Review: Matthew Ritchie at the Frist

Some artists zoom in and focus on the small details of whatever they’re depicting or evoking: a place or person, an object, a thought, a feeling. Think of Matisse sticking close to home, cataloging the contents of his red studio: the paintings on the wall, the chairs for viewing them, the table, the wineglass. Others take a decidedly more macro approach, zooming out and up...
spot_imgspot_img

Recent Articles

Review: “The Future is Female”

Art may be uniquely positioned to contain all manner...

Review of “The Odyssey: A Retelling”

An uncomfortable truth about a good deal of contemporary...

Studio Visit: Mark Lenn Johnson

There are two Mark Lenn Johnsons. The first and (at...

all archives

Louis Zoellar Bickett II In Conversation with Christine

Early this summer, UnderMain's Christine Huskisson began a series of...

The Wedding Day Kiss

“When I met my wife Jennifer in 2011, I might’ve...

Collapsing Art and Life

(Photo by Guy Mendes) At the beginning of this month, UnderMain...

A New Broom Sweeps Clean

Born in Clark County, Kentucky, Louis Zoellar Bickett was raised...

By The Hand of a Conceptualist

  For many years, Louis Zoellar Bickett - a Lexington-based, self-taught,...

Running Where We Stand

Aaron Skolnick's show at the Glacier Gallery - 1107 Harrison...

Review: American Horse and Hound

In William Shakespeare’s play, King Richard III cries out, “A...

Experiments in Art History

University art galleries have the potential to serve as science...

Females on the Figure

I frequently find myself searching for inspiration to get back...

Ways of Validation: Lawrence Tarpey at the University of Kentucky Art Museum

Standing alongside one of the region’s most distinguished research universities,...

Past Forward, Present Tense

Curatorial discourse has become increasingly self-reflexive, questioning the power structures...

Andrew Brinkhorst Sees Music

  If you’ve been to live music shows in the area...

sponsors & galleries

spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img
spot_img